nostalgic - Story 93359 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic was a labyrinth of forgotten treasures. Lisa ran her hand along the top of a wooden chest. It was locked. She found a key, and slowly opened it.

Inside were a collection of old toys. A teddy bear, its fur matted and worn. A set of building blocks, missing a few pieces. She ran her fingers over a small, wooden car.

She picked up the bear, hugging it to her. She closed her eyes. She started to think of her own childhood. The house felt strangely quiet.

Emotion: nostalgic

Cluster: Nostalgia / Reflection

PC1 (Valence): 1.00 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -1.93

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion nostalgic. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 nostalgic stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the nostalgic emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the nostalgic vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`H`	0.677
`L`	0.647
`시절`	0.611
`nostalgic`	0.609
`fondly`	0.609

Suppressed:

`-`	-0.564
`either`	-0.525
`or`	-0.497
`싶`	-0.487
`l`	-0.449